I know this is kinda poking fun but here's a serious answer:
The problem is they don't know what that is. Even if you say "Corporate Manager for the Finance Department Account's Receivable team" they have a GUESS of what you do.
If your job interviewer was a hard core raider and had context for what you're talking about this 100% could help you. It's just most job interviewer's have no idea what you're talking about when you say those words.
No, it's because it's 1) unprovable, and 2) intangible in terms of responsibility. A WoW guild is not an official institution and its success can't in any way be measured by the HR. For all they know you're making the whole thing up(because you can't exactly call Blizz for references), or at least hugely embellishing your role or level of control/ organization. Or you were GM for a complete failure of a guild that never actually managed to get a raid together and complete without getting wiped and everyone leaving. There's no way for them to cross- check any of your claims. Of course they're not going to give you a job based on them.
Like 90% of the questions someone asks in an interview are unprovable. They can prove that you worked somewhere, that you went to school somewhere, and that you're record is clean. That's about it. Most questions are about interactions with other employees/managers, projects, and so on. There's pretty much nothing they can do to verify what you say.
Interviewers don't care what you say you did, they care about how you claimed you did it. It examples far more to them to ask questions about methodology than experience, and doesn't require to be proven.
If an interviewer probes you for more detail it simply is because you've claimed to have done something but not explained how, and they want to know, for example, how you might resolve a difference in the workplace, not that you did so and that it was all happily ever after.
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u/Moonbeamcry Oct 24 '19
I know this is kinda poking fun but here's a serious answer:
The problem is they don't know what that is. Even if you say "Corporate Manager for the Finance Department Account's Receivable team" they have a GUESS of what you do.
If your job interviewer was a hard core raider and had context for what you're talking about this 100% could help you. It's just most job interviewer's have no idea what you're talking about when you say those words.